The municipal elections of Delhi, scheduled for April 23, have 173 candidates with criminal cases against them. A report by the National Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) shows that
Objecting to several clauses in the draft RTI rules, 2017, including abatement of proceedings after the death of the appellant,
India can learn a thing or two about recycling from the US where even entire buildings are being recycled. The US currently generates nearly 260 million tons of solid waste annually while India is producing 960 million tons s
Tamil Nadu, one of India’s largest states and home to about 67 million people, is facing a severe drought, forcing many farmers to commit suicide as their crop withers. The state’s agony has been highlighted i
The volatile situation in the Valley has prompted the security forces to experiment with a variety of weapons. There are the PAVA shells packed with chilli, the rubber bullets that ricochet, the hugely damaging pellet guns and now plastic
Bharatiya Janata Party’s publicity blitzkrieg in the run-up to the municipal elections in Delhi is a major psychological warfare against the Aam Admi Party (AAP), aimed at blurring the lines between facts and fiction and national and
On the sultry afternoon of April 1, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal rose to deliver his first campaign speech for the capital’s municipal corporation elections. The venue was Gautam Vihar Chowk, an area with many unauthorised co
Cyber experts at Newcastle University, UK, have revealed the ease with which malicious websites, as well as installed apps, can spy on us using just the information from the motion sensors in our mobile phones. Analysing th
India has seven union territories and it is high time that these are reorganised and merged with the states so that there is better governance. The seven
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) payments worth Rs 9,124 crores are yet to be paid across the country for work done in the last financial year. According to the
The Art of Living (AOL) has criticised a report submitted to the National Green Tribunal, calling it “completely flawed, unscientific and biased”. The Art of Living foundation had hel
Work on the 1.6 km Rani Jhansi grade separator (road engineering jargon for a structure that allows traffic from different directions to flow without obstruction) began more than 19 years ago. To this day, it remains incomplete. Some concr
Internet users in India are signing an online petition
Thanks to the high-speed broadband connectivity, practicals and complex subjects are taught using YouTube at the school. “Life-saving activities like heart pumping during a cardiac arrest can’t be taught theoretically. It has to be dem
Tracking the performance of district hospitals spread across the country just got easier, with the Niti Aayog working out the metrics and developing a framework. A Niti Aayog document said that i
As the 59 American Tomahawk missiles lit up the dark skies, smashing Syria’s Shayrat air base near Homs, the collective conscience of the “civilised world” was assuaged. Some called it a “humanitarian act”. Mo
Political parties have failed to keep the promises that were made in the election manifestoes, noted a Praja Foundation report. The report has pointed towards scant concern of political parties on issues taken up during elections
Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that 113 crore people trust Aadhaar. “If I talk about the poor, 60 crore people are not complaining , they are happy. When their MNREGA payment is made some strong men or ‘muk
Law and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said that the interim orders of the supreme court on Aadhaar delivered in 2015 are meant for an "interim arrangement" and "it is not a judgement". Respondi
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has served notices to the district magistrate and superintendent of Police, Gautam Budh Nagar over African students being assaulted in Greater Noida. The rights panel has acted on a compl
